Lexicon

Ad-Hoc Mini-Language

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Declarative Core

Record: lexicon:ad-hoc-mini-language

Canonical: Lexicon

A defect in which rules are written in an informal mini-language that has no grammar and no validator.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Deferred Static Check and before Ad-Hoc Notebook-to-Production.

Category

  • Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture

Violates

  • Domain-Specific Language
  • Language-Oriented Programming

Linked from

  • Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture